Installing PEAR and PHPUnit with xampp

Question

I am trying to get PHPUnit up and running the following are the steps I am currently following:

### Install new PEAR Version needed for PHPUnit 3.X
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Answer 1

I was able to get pear (and subsequently, phpunit) working by creating a symlink in C:\ that points to the xamp php installation directory. That makes everything that expects php to be in C:\php happy, while not breaking anything that expected php to be in xampp:

In cmd.exe, I typed:

C:\Windows>cd \
C:\>junction php C:\path\to\xampp\php

I updated my php.ini to use C:\php as the location for php. I then installed pear (as a local installation, not system). Once pear was installed, installing phpunit was simple:

C:\>pear channel-discover components.ez.no
C:\>pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
C:\>pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com

And then finally,

C:\>pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit